Empty bars, flagging vans, random vikings, familiar villains and coniving gypsies
Well, it is summer time... That means that the bar has been pretty slow of late. The first week of "Summer A" seemed promising, with huge crowds every night, and then... ffssssssst. Nada. It's been miserably slow. This kind of sucks, being that I am making much less than I used to, and need to bar income to make up for it... Well, there's always "Summer B" and "Summer C" to go. And fall is not too far off, which means football season, which will help. So... last week was pretty much a wash, and I was glad when it was over. Next stop, Sheepssesses house!
As I was pulling into her parking lot at o-dark-thirty, the power steering in my van went out. "Eh, I'll take care of it later." Well, it was 5:30 in the morning...
I ended up sleeping in, though Sheeps was woken up by a call from "Her Highness". She asked kindly if I wanted to get up, and I implored, "One more half hour, ma..." Being so terribly kind, she actually let me sleep another 2.5... Then, the day was mostly gone, and we hadn't eaten anything. We both got cleaned up and dressed, and headed out for a bite to eat.
Sheeps had a gift card to Logan's, so we went for steaks before catching a flick. They were, as usual, quite yummy. On the way out to the parking lot, I heard my SCA shouted loudly. "Runner Girl" and "Fire Guy" were having dinner there as well, and saw us walking in the parking lot... We went back inside and chatted for a while. Then we headed for the theater to catch "Shrek 3", and it turns out they were going as well. We didn't get to sit together, but were in the same theater. I enjoyed the movie, but don't think it was as good as the other two. There was one scene that just flat out reminded me of my household, and I guffawed, apparently alone. Oh, well.
After the show, I was going to take Sheeps out for Ice Cream, as she'd been a good little lamb, and our double date continued, as RG and FG had the same idea.
On the way home, we stopped at Wally World to get some things (namely power steering fluid). We found a bunch of movies on sale, and picked them up, including one we were specifically looking for, Ocean's 12, which we both passed 3 times without seeing... I already own 11, and we were prepping for 13....
The next morn, Sheeps had to go to work for a while, so I got up and pharted around. I went to fill the power steering fluid in the van, and discovered that it was just fine. The problem was a bunch of bare pulleys.... Seems like the serpentine belt broke. Craaaaap. Oh, well. We'll get one when she gets home. She did, and we ran out and got the belt. The problem is that my paws are huge... and the working space limited. I couldn't even reach all the pulleys. Luckily, Sheeps loves me a lot, and has much slimmer arms and smaller hands, and was able to get it (mostly) on, getting filthy in the process. I called an ex-squire (now a knight) and he came over with the proper tools to finish the job. Needed a wrench that we didn't have, nor did he, so back to Wally World. With the right tool, the job was finished in seconds.
After getting cleaned up, we popped in a tape that some friends had made for us. They've been TiVo'ing "The Riches" for us, and put the first 6 episodes on tape. It was..... ummmmm..... interesting. Not at all what I'd been expecting. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but it was a lot more serious than I'd anticipated. Essentially, a family of modern gypsies go into hiding by taking over the identities of a rich family. Hilarity ensues. Okay, not so much. It is pretty serious, and covers some serious topics. Nonetheless, it is still pretty good.
Then it was up at 5am, and back home to G'Ville, and back to work. Yay.
As I was pulling into her parking lot at o-dark-thirty, the power steering in my van went out. "Eh, I'll take care of it later." Well, it was 5:30 in the morning...
I ended up sleeping in, though Sheeps was woken up by a call from "Her Highness". She asked kindly if I wanted to get up, and I implored, "One more half hour, ma..." Being so terribly kind, she actually let me sleep another 2.5... Then, the day was mostly gone, and we hadn't eaten anything. We both got cleaned up and dressed, and headed out for a bite to eat.
Sheeps had a gift card to Logan's, so we went for steaks before catching a flick. They were, as usual, quite yummy. On the way out to the parking lot, I heard my SCA shouted loudly. "Runner Girl" and "Fire Guy" were having dinner there as well, and saw us walking in the parking lot... We went back inside and chatted for a while. Then we headed for the theater to catch "Shrek 3", and it turns out they were going as well. We didn't get to sit together, but were in the same theater. I enjoyed the movie, but don't think it was as good as the other two. There was one scene that just flat out reminded me of my household, and I guffawed, apparently alone. Oh, well.
After the show, I was going to take Sheeps out for Ice Cream, as she'd been a good little lamb, and our double date continued, as RG and FG had the same idea.
On the way home, we stopped at Wally World to get some things (namely power steering fluid). We found a bunch of movies on sale, and picked them up, including one we were specifically looking for, Ocean's 12, which we both passed 3 times without seeing... I already own 11, and we were prepping for 13....
The next morn, Sheeps had to go to work for a while, so I got up and pharted around. I went to fill the power steering fluid in the van, and discovered that it was just fine. The problem was a bunch of bare pulleys.... Seems like the serpentine belt broke. Craaaaap. Oh, well. We'll get one when she gets home. She did, and we ran out and got the belt. The problem is that my paws are huge... and the working space limited. I couldn't even reach all the pulleys. Luckily, Sheeps loves me a lot, and has much slimmer arms and smaller hands, and was able to get it (mostly) on, getting filthy in the process. I called an ex-squire (now a knight) and he came over with the proper tools to finish the job. Needed a wrench that we didn't have, nor did he, so back to Wally World. With the right tool, the job was finished in seconds.
After getting cleaned up, we popped in a tape that some friends had made for us. They've been TiVo'ing "The Riches" for us, and put the first 6 episodes on tape. It was..... ummmmm..... interesting. Not at all what I'd been expecting. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but it was a lot more serious than I'd anticipated. Essentially, a family of modern gypsies go into hiding by taking over the identities of a rich family. Hilarity ensues. Okay, not so much. It is pretty serious, and covers some serious topics. Nonetheless, it is still pretty good.
Then it was up at 5am, and back home to G'Ville, and back to work. Yay.
posted by Turtle at 4:35 PM
4 Comments:
Don't you just love the fact that losing one belt can kill all the important stuff in your engine. You're very lucky that the belt went as you were pulling in, since it also drives the water pump. Glad to hear it was such a, relatively, easy fix. And I am curious, which scene in Shrek was the apropo one?
The scene: Towards the end of the movie, as the tale is being wrapped up and the moral of the story is being introduced, Shrek is speaking to a packed audience and a "cast" of villains, wherein he says something along the lines of "If you are unhappy with your life, do something about it. The only person getting in your way is YOU!" And he dramatically gestures, appearing to indicate a particular villain.
The other villains all immediately stare at him and yell "HIM?!?! Get 'im!!!" and attact the poor guy.
Turtle busted out laughing and I looked at him and said "OHMYGOD! Your squires!"
Well, RAS got to it before I could... It was Artie, though, not Shrek...
We had a great time on the impromptu double date!! Hope we didn't mess up any plans otherwise!!
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